Secret Pillow Project tells a story of empowerment and of hope

Fritha Vincent, founder of Secret Pillows, with a bed of her colourful pillows that tell a story of empowerment and of hope.

The Secret Pillow Project is a social business set up to train and empower women in India through making and selling Secret Pillows. Making these pillows mean women can feed, clothe, and send their children to school. Secret Pillows offer a future, according to founder and social entrepreneur, Fritha Vincent.  Determined to find a way to empower disadvantaged women. Fritha is driven by the statistic that 80 per cent of children in institutions are there because their parents can't afford to take care of them.

Fritha Vincent, the founder of the project training a group of Makers in Tamil Nadu, South India.
Secret Projects Makers are paid double minimum wage per hours they work. Through the Training for Empowerment Programme funded by the sales of the products, Makers are trained, helped to professionalise and develop, with the ultimate goal of being independence. 

Fritha said: "By empowering women and providing them with access to an international market to sell their products, Secret Projects believes it can be part of the solution to help keep families together.”

The business started out as an experiment called Secret Pillow Project and through a series of successful crowdfunding  campaigns a commited, global customer base grew. With the launch of their second product, Secret Sari Dress, the business was relaunched Secret Projects.

Secret Projects Makers are paid double mimimum wage per hours they work. Through the Training for Empowerment Programme funded by the sales of the products, Makers are trained, helped to professionlise and develop, with the ultimate goal being independence.

Secret Projects sells fashion and home ware. Their trade mark is that all their products fold up into themselves and unfold women's power as they are sold.